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    Against redemption: The dilemma of memoir

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    Authors
    Robertson, Rachel
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Robertson, Rachel. 2012. Against redemption: The dilemma of memoir. Axon: Creative Explorations. 1 (2): pp. 1-8.
    Source Title
    Axon: Creative Explorations
    Additional URLs
    http://www.axonjournal.com.au/issue-2/against-redemption-dilemma-memoir
    ISSN
    1838-8973
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13349
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The pressure for commercially published memoirs to offer a tragedy-to-triumph redemptive arc is exacerbated when the memoir is about disability. I explore how I attempted to contest this narrative arc, using a thematic rather than chronological approach and adopting the personal essay form. I also unpack the role of metaphor in representing a disability such as autism and the complexities of writing from a socio-cultural (rather than symbolic or medical) paradigm of disability. I examine one of the key dilemmas of writing a relational memoir and the creative judgements that the author must make.

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